Bibliography for Black Church History

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Bibliography for Black Church History

And for Black History in America

© 2017, By Bob Kellemen

Bibliography

Disclaimer: Inclusion in this bibliography does not constitute an endorsement. This is an academic bibliography designed for research purposes. The reader is encouraged to read and research with biblical discernment.

Albert, Octavia, ed. The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves. Reprint edition. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1988.

Alexander, Curtis. Richard Allen:The First Exemplar of African American Education. New York: ECA Associates, 1985.

Allen, William, Charles Ware, and Lucy Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. Reprint edition. New York: Peter Smith, 1929.

Altschul, Paisius, ed. An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African-American Experience. St Louis: Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black, 1997.

Anderson, Robert. From Slavery to Affluence: Memories of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave. Hemingford, NB: The Hemingford Ledger, 1927.

Andrews, Dale. Practical Theology for Black Churches. Louisville: Westminster, 2002.

Andrews, William, ed. North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

–––––, ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 1986.

Anyabwile, Thabiti. The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2007.

–––––.The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007.

–––––.Reviving the Black Church: A Call to Reclaim a Sacred Institution. Nashville: B&H, 2015.

Arnett, B., ed. Proceedings of the Quarto-Centennial Conference of the A.M.E.Church of South Carolina, May 15-17, 1889. Charleston, 1890.

Arnett, William. The Quilts of Gee’s Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.

Ashby, Homer. Our Home Is Over Jordan: A Black Pastoral Theology. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003.

Baker, Lindsay, ed. The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman, OK: University ofOklahoma Press, 1996.

Bailey, Anne. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame. Boston: Beacon, 2005.

Battle, Michael. The BlackChurch in America: African American Christian Spirituality. Boston: Blackwell, 2006.

Bayliss, John, ed. Black Slave Narratives. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Beckner, Chrisanne. 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History. San Mateo, CA: Bluewood Books, 1995.

Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

–––––.Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1998.

–––––, ed. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipations. New York: New Press, 2000.

Berlin, Ira, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, and Leslie Rowland, eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New York Press, 1992.

Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave. Introduction by Lucius Matlack. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2005.

Blassingame, John. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1979.

–––––. ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rogue: LouisianaStateUniversity Press, 1977.

–––––. “Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems.” Journal of Southern History 41, no. 4 (November 1975): 473-492.

Blount, Brian, general ed., and Cain Hope Felder, Clarice Martin, and Emerson Powery, associate eds. True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.

Boles, John, ed. Master and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.

Bontemps, Arna, ed. Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G. W. Offley,and James Smith. Middletown, CT: WesleyanUniversity Press.

Bosman, William. A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea. London, 1705.

Botkin, B. A., ed. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. New York: Delta Books, 1945.

Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, New York: Corinth Books, 1989.

Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Braxton, Brad. No Longer Slaves: Galatians and the African American Experience. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Cade, John. “Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves.” The Journal of Negro History 20, (1935): 328-331.

Callahan, Allen. The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2006.

Campbell, James. Middle Passage: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.New York: Penguin, 2007.

Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life. Revised edition. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Carretta, Vincent. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Carter, Harold. The Prayer Tradition of Black People. Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 1976.

Cerami, Charles. Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Clayton, Ronnie. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers’ Project. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

Clebsch, William, and Charles Jaekle. Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Coffin, Charles. The Boys of ’61; or Four Years of Fighting. Boston: Estes & Lauriat,1886.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1998.

Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas, and Henry Mitchell. Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture. Nashville: Abingdon, 1986.

Costen, Melva African American Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993,

Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. Edited by Vincent Carretta. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Curtin, Philip. African Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Davis, Cyprian. The History of Black Catholics in the United States. New York: Crossroads, 1990.

Davis, David. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Deramus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. New York: Atria Books, 2005.

Dixie, Quinton, and Cornel West, eds. The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Douglas, William. Annals of the FirstAfricanChurch in the United States of America, Now Styled the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. Philadelphia, 1862.

Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. New York, 1855.

–––––.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. Unabridged republication Cheswold, DL: Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Press, 2004.

–––––.The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Revised edition. London: Collier-MacMillan, 1962.

Driver, Tom.Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

Du Bois, W. E. B. The NegroChurch.Atlanta: The AtlantaUniversity Press, 1903.

–––––.The Philadelphia Negro. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1899.

–––––.The Souls of Black Folks. Introduction by Donald B. Gibson. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Ellis, Catherine, and Stephen Smith, eds. Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches. New York: New Press, 2007.

Epstein, Dena. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Edited by Shelly Eversley. Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr. New York: The Modern Library, 2004.

Evans, James. We Have Been Believers: An African-American Systematic Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

Falconbridge, Alexander. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. London: J. Phillips, 1788.

Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jennifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.

Felder, Cain Hope. Stoney the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

Fisk University Social Science Institute. Unwritten History of Slavery. Nashville: Fisk University Social Science Institute, 1945.

Foner, Philip, and Robert Branham, eds. Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Three volumes. New York: Vintage, 1986.

Foster, Sharon Ewell. Abraham’s Well. Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House, 2006.

–––––.Passing by Samaria. Grand Rapids: Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah, 1999.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. Revised edition with two volumes in one. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Frazier, Franklin. The NegroChurch in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1964.

–––––.The Negro in the United States. Revised edition. New York: Macmillan, 1957.

Frey, Sylvia, and Betty Wood. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestants in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina University Press, 1998.

Fulop, Timothy, and Albert Raboteau. African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Gates, Henry Louis. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Signet, 2002.

Gaustad, Edwin, and Mark Noll, eds. A Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1877. Third edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003.

Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

George, Timothy, and Alister McGrath, eds. For All the Saints: Evangelical Theology and Christian Spirituality. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.

Gilkes, Cheryl. “The BlackChurch as a Therapeutic Community: Suggested Areas for Research into the Black Religious Experience.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 8 (Fall 1980): 29-44.

Giovanni, Nikki. On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2007.

Gomez, Laura. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Gomez-Jefferson, Annetta. In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, A Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1998.

Gronniosaw, James. A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, As Related by Himself. London: Leeds, 1814.

Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.

Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Thirtieth anniversary edition. Seattle: Vanguard Press, 2007.

Hartman, Saidiya, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.

–––––.Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Heglar, Charles. Rethinking the Slave Narrative. New York: Greenwood, 2001.

Henson, Josiah. Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life. Corner House Publishing, 1979.

Higginson, Thomas. Army Life in a Black Regiment and Other Writings. Introduction by R. D. Madison. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

Hine, Darlene. The African American Odyssey: Volume II—Chapters 12-24. Third edition. New York: Prentice Hall, 2005.

Holmes, Barbara. Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the BlackChurch. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.

Hopkins, Dwight. Introducing Black Theology of Liberation. New York: Orbis Books, 1999.

–––––.Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

–––––.Shoes That Fit Our Feet: Sources for a Conservative Black Theology. New York: Orbis Books, 1993.

Hopkins, Dwight, and George Cummings, eds. Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives. Louisville: Westminster, 2003.

Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, eds. The Book of Negro Folklore. New York: Dodd and Mead, 1958.

Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

Jackson, Dave, and Neta Jackson. Heroes in Black History: True Stories From the Lives of Christian Heroes. Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 2008.

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Dover, 2001.

Johnson, Alonzo, and Paul Jersild, eds. “Ain’t Gonna Lay My ’Legion Down”: African American Religion in the South. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Johnson, Charles Middle Passage. New York: Scribner, 1998.

Johnson, Clifton, ed. God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences andAutobiographies of Ex-Slaves. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1993.

Johnson, James Weldon. The Book of the American Negro Spirituals. Reprint edition. New York: Da Capo, 2002.

Johnson, James Weldon, John Johnson, and Lawrence Brown, eds. The Books of American Negro Spirituals: Including the Book of American Negro Spirituals and the Second Book of Negro Spirituals. New York: Da Capo, 1977.

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Jones, Arthur. Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals. New York: Orbis Books, 1993.

Jones, Kevin, and Jarvis Williams. Removing the Stain of Racism from the Southern Baptist Convention: Diverse African American and White Perspectives. Nashville, B&H Academics, 2017.

June, Lee, and Sabrina Black. Counseling in African-American Communities: Biblical Perspectives on Tough Issues. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002.

Jusu, John, supervising ed. African Study Bible. Wheaton, IL: Oasis International, 2016.

Kalm, Peter. Travels Into North America. Second ed. Reprinted in vol. 13 of A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels. Edited by John Pinkerton.London, 1812.

Katz, Bernard, ed. The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in the United States. New York: Beaufort Books, 1979.

Katz, William, ed. Five Slave Narratives. New York: Arno, 1968.

Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Reprinted by the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.Edited by Henry Gates, Jr., New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1988.

Kellemen, Robert, and Karole Edwards. Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007.

Kellemen, Robert, and Susan Ellis. “Voices of Healing: African American Women of Faith.” Chap. 12 in Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith. Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 2009.

Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery: 1619-1877. Revised edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Laird, Roland, with Taneshia Nash Laird. Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans. New York: Sterling, 1997.

Lee, Jarena. Religious Experiences and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee: “A Preach’in Woman.” Nashville: Legacy, 1991.

Lehman, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1977.

Lincoln, Eric, and Lawrence Mamiya. The BlackChurch in the African American Experience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990.

Lyons, Mary. Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs. New York: Atheneum Books, 2007.

–––––.Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs. New York: Simon Pulse, 1992.

McClain, William, Jefferson Ferguson, and Verolga Nix, eds. Songs of Zion. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981.

McElrath, Jessica. The Everything Martin Luther King Jr. Book: The Struggle, The Dream, The Legacy. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2008.

McNeil, John. A History of the Cure of Souls. New York: Harper and Row, 1951.

Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember, An Oral History. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

Meredith, Martin. The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair—A History of Fifty Years of Independence. New York: Public Affairs, 2005.

Metaxas, Eric. Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. San Francisco: Harper, 2007.

Miller, Randall, ed. “Dear Master”: Letters of a Slave Family. Revised edition. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Mitchell, Henry. BlackChurch Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.

Newkirk, Pamela. A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters. New York: Doubleday, 2003.

Newman, Richard, ed. Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990.

–––––.Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Nichols, Charles. Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves’ Account of Their Bondage and Freedom. Leidan, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1963.

Noel, James. “Call and Response: The Meaning of the Moan and Significance of the Shout in Black Worship.” Reformed Liturgy & Music 28/2 (Spring 1994): 72-76.

Northrup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2000.

Oden, Thomas. Care of Souls in the Classic Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

–––––.How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007.

–––––. “Whatever Happened to History?” Good News, January-February, 1993, n.p.

Osofsky, Gilbert, ed. Puttin’ On Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. Reprint edition. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1969.

Pagan, Margaret. More Than a Slave: The Life of Katherine Ferguson. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2003.

Parent, Anthony. Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Paris, Peter. The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

Parker, Matthew, Teaching Our Men, Reaching Our Fathers: African American Churches. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2002.

Payne, Daniel. A History of the A.M.E.Church, I, 1816-1856. Reprint edition. New York: Arno, 1968.